Sunday, December 23, 2007

Televisa 1, Univision 0 (zero, zip, big goose egg)

From the Los Angeles Times:
Grupo Televisa has won a court ruling that could allow the Mexican broadcasting giant to move closer to ending its tumultuous relationship with Univision Communications Inc., the largest Spanish-language media company in the United States.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-univision21dec21,1,914153.story?coll=la-headlines-business

Univision, the largest player in Spanish in the United States, has nurtured its dominance by replaying content produced by Mexico's media giant Televisa, the largest producer of Spanish-language media content on the planet. In my mind, Univision has largely been a distributor of Televisa content and owes Televisa content for its success.

Televisa wants more of the action. If Televisa breaks from Univision and providing its pre-tested hits that work well with the largest Spanish-dominant Latino group in the country - Mexican immigrants - then Univision is in trouble.

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